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'Green News Report' - March 20, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Floods, Gas Prices, Green Jobs, Fracking, Regulation, Green News Report, Pollution, Green Energy, Climate Scientists, Video, Rising Sea Level, 2012 Presidential Election, Oil Spill, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Climate Science, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, Carbon Dioxide, Environmentalism, Subsidies, Barack Obama, Senate, Water Pollution, BRAD BLOG, Water, Green News, Sustainability, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Republicans, Rising Sea Levels, James Inhofe, O'Hare, Pine Beetle, Electric Cars, Electric Highway, Oregon, Mitt Romney, Thomas Edison, Illinois, Asian Carp, Factory Farms, Antibiotic Resistance, Oecd, Fertilizer, Pink Slime, China, Green News

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MAP: Will Climate Change Flood New York By 2020?

Posted 03.15.2012

Read More: New York City Flooding, Rising Sea Levels, Ny News, New York City Sea Levels, Climate Change, Climate Central, New York News, Global Warming, New York News

A new report from Climate Central, a nonprofit news and research organization based in New Jersey, shows New York City at risk for severe coastal floo...

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Millions Of U.S. Residents Face Rising Threat

Reuters | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Video, Rising Sea Levels, Global Warming Sea Levels, Global Warming Flood, Reuters, Climate Change, Climate Change Flood, Global Warming, Green News

* Global warming doubles risk of once-a-century floods * $30 billion in property damage projected for Florida * Sea leve...

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The Deal We Dare Not Turn Down: Save This Rainforest, or Trigger Our Destruction

Johann Hari | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: Oil Rigs, Rising Sea Levels, Natural Resources, Rainforest, Ecuador, Biodiversity, Rafael Correa, Save the Rainforest, Digging for Oil, Oil Reserves, Global Warming, Mass Extinction, Green News

Ecuador's government says that if the rest of the world offers just half of what the oil beneath their rainforest is worth -- $3.5 billion -- they will keep the rainforest standing and alive and working for us all.

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New Largest Contributor To Rising Seas

The Huffington Post | Joanna Zelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rising Sea Levels, Ice Sheet Melting, Ice Sheets, Rising Seas, Climate Change, Melting Ice Sheet, Science, Rising Oceans, Global Warming Ice, Green News

Ice sheets are now the largest contributor to rising sea levels, a new report has found. If ice sheets continue to melt at their current rates, sea le...

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The More We Know, the Worse it Gets

Rebecca Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Co2, Science, Climate Change, Drought, Nature, Rising Sea Levels, Climate Models, Storms, Flooding, Rainfall, Green News

This past week, two studies were published that point a finger at human-caused climate change as being the cause of bigger storms and flooding seen over the last few decades.

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Rising Seas Could Threaten 180 U.S. Cities By End Of Century

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Warming Threat, Climate Change, Rising Sea Level, Sea Level Rise, Climate Change Threat, Rising Seas, Rising Seas US Cities, Rising Sea Levels, Science, US Cities Rising Seas, Rising Seas US, US Cities Sea Levels, Green News

WASHINGTON (Reuters/Deborah Zabarenko) - Rising seas spurred by climate change could threaten 180 U.S. coastal cities by 2100, a new study says, wit...

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The World's Most Dangerous Epidemic

Erik Rasmussen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rising Sea Levels, Copenhagen Accord, Climate Crisis, cop15, Global Warming, Climate Change, Green News

The world is facing an escalating global epidemic. Today, it claims 350,000 deaths per year and in 2030 the annual death toll will be approaching one million -- the majority of them will be children.

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This Is the Hottest Year Ever, and the Climate Catastrophe Has Begun

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rising Sea Levels, Pakistan Floods, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Moscow Droughts, Climate Change Action, Hottest-Year-Ever, Global Warming, Climate Change Legislation, Green News

The broader public mood, smeared like sunscreen over us all, isn't active denial. No -- it's the desire to endlessly postpone this issue for another day.

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Is New Orleans Safe? BP and the 5th Anniversary of Katrina

John M. Barry | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rising Sea Levels, New Orleans, Katrina, Katrina Anniversary, New Orleans Rising Sea Levels, Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Oil Spill, 100-Year-Flood, Green News

Federal, state and local governments committed roughly $14 billion to protect the city against a "100-year flood." But how safe will that make New Orleans? The fact is, the 100-year standard is dangerously misleading terminology.

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Global Floating Ice Is In 'Constant Retreat': Study

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Geophysical Research Letters, Global Sea Levels, Rising Sea Levels, Ice Sheets, Floating Ice, Floating Ice Retreat, Climate Change, Sea Level Rise, Green News

LONDON (Reuters) - The world's floating ice is in "constant retreat," showing an instability which will increase global sea levels, according to a rep...

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East Coast Beaches Are Disappearing, And Nobody's Listening

The Climate Desk | Josh Harkinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Epa, East Coach Beaches, Rising Sea Levels, Climate Change Sea Level Rise, Climate Change, Chesapeake Bay, Rising Oceans, Jim Titus, Sea Level Rise, Green News

Surveying the armored shoreline, Jim Titus explains how the natural sinking of the shoreline and slow but steady sea-level rise, mostly due to climate...

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Rising Sea Levels: Imagining A World Where Land And Water Converge (PHOTOS)

Gazelle Emami | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rising Sea Levels, Rising Currents, Barry Bergdoll, Moma Rising Currents, Climate Change Sea Level, Architecture Rising Sea Levels, Climate Change, Moma, Slidepollajax, Green News

We hear a lot about how to forestall the effects of climate change. Lower your carbon footprints by eating less meat, flying less, changing your light...

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Our Vanishing Glaciers (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rising Sea Levels, Glaciers Climate Change, Glaciers, Glaciers Rising Sea Levels, Melting Glaciers, Glacial Retreat, Slidepollajax, Climate Change, Green News

The recent loss of two more glaciers from Glacier National Park and the glacier-induced tsunami in Peru remind us that many of our world's glaciers ar...

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Maldives Will Fight Rising Sea Levels With Floating Islands

Inhabitat | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dutch Docklands/Dutch Watervalley, Rising Sea Levels, Climate Change, Maldives, Maldives-Climate-Change, Maldives Rising Sea Levels, Maldives Floating Islands, Green News

The tiny island nation of the Maldives is under serious threat from rising sea levels caused by climate change. No part of the 1200 islands which make...

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Climate Refugees (VIDEO): The Human Face Of Climate Change

Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Climate Migration, Rising Sea Levels, Climate Refugees, Michael Nash Climate Refugees, Coastal Erosion, Michael Nash, Climate Change, Video, Green News

"When you've seen land being lost 30 feet at a time, in an hour, then it starts scaring you." That's Dennis Davis of Shismaref, Alaska, just one of t...

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Global Warming Deniers: The New 9/11 Truthers

Sahil Kapur | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rising Sea Levels, Joe Mccarthy, Hurricanes, Ipcc, Christopher Hitchens, Liberal, Conservative, The Green Revolution, Republican, Melting Ice Caps, Wildfires, Climate Change, Climate Change Skeptics, Global Warming, 9/11 Truthers, Partisan, Right-Wingers, Green News

Both groups are convinced they possess a uniquely superior grasp of reality. Facts and evidence are muffled by their messianic quest to inform society of its delusions and inadequacies.

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"Lilypad" Cities Designed To Combat Rising Sea Levels (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Warming Refugees, Rising Sea Levels, Environment, Floating Cities, Lilypad Cities, Cities on the Seas, Cities on the Oceans, Rising Sea Levels Floating Cities, Green News

Scientists are preparing to deal with 'climate-change refugees' as rising sea levels threaten ever more lands. Architect Vincent Callebaut has come u...

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